[B-Greek] Col. 1:13a causal pronoun FOLLOW Up2

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed Apr 14 21:58:33 EDT 2004


At 5:23 PM -0700 4/14/04, Mitch Larramore wrote:
>Dr. Conrad, you wrote
>
>> Certainly; it may be a simple matter of an
>> adjectival clarification of
>> which person a substantive in a main clause refers
>> to: AR' EIDES SU TON
>> ANDRA hOS TAUTA EPOIHSEN? "Did you see the man WHO
>> DID THIS?' Or it may be
>> in a conditional generalizing clause: hOS TIS AN
>> TAUTA POIHSHi, ECQROS
>> EKEINOS ALHQWS TWi QEWi--"Anyone who does that is
>> surely hostile to God",
>> etc. That is to say, a relative clause may take
>> several forms within larger
>> syntactical structures.
>
>Getting back to my original question:
>
>Col 1...
>
>12
>EUCARISTOUNTES TWi PATRI TWi hIKANWSANTI hUMAS EIS THN
>MERIDA TOU KLHROU TWN hAGIWN EN TWi FWTI
>13
>hOS ERRUSATO hHMAS EK THS EXOUSIAS TOU SKOTOUS KAI
>METESTHSEN EIS THN BASILEIAN TOU hUIOU THS AGAPHS
>AUTOU
>
>
>An adverbial participle/clause can create a causal
>relationship between these two verse, "because he
>rescued us..." Can a relative clause (as we have here
>with hOS) be the semantic equivalent of an adverbial
>clause? In my thinking, a relative pronoun creates a
>clause that functions as an adjective.
>
>(There is a part of me that thinks this question is
>somehow related to the other thread about Adjectival
>or Adverbial participles based on case.)

Mitch, if I understand your question rightly, I think the answer is simply,
No. A relative clause IS fundamentally equivalent to an adjectival
participle and in fact an adjectival participle is quite commonly Englished
as a relative clause. Thus my hypothetical sentence, AR' EIDES SU TON ANDRA
hOS TAUTA EPOIHSEN? could just as well have been expressed with an
attributive (adjectival) participle thus: AR' EIDES SU TON ANDRA TON TAUTA
POIHSANTA? or, even more simply, AR' EIDES SU TON TAUTA POIHSANTA?
-- 

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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